GRADUATE Clementine Nauwet received the school of humanities and social sciences’ (SHSS) executive dean’s award for achieving the highest accumulative grade point average (GPA) of 4.38 at the University of Papua New Guinea’s (UPNG) 67th graduation yesterday.
“This woman has made history to be the recipient of the newly introduced award,” SHSS executive dean Prof Leo Marai said of the 22-year-old. “The award is the first of its kind to be given and Clementine is the first recipient of that award.” THE curriculum for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) subjects has been introduced into the country’s education system and qualified teachers are needed to implement it, Education secretary Dr Uke Kombra says. “We want to train teachers who are competent and specialised in Stem (subjects),” he said. “We are also getting graduates from the University of Technology who have a technical background to teach Stem subjects.” Kombra said the new curriculum was introduced in the schools of excellence last year. “Previously, in the curriculum, the grade 11s and 12s at the national high schools and secondary schools in our general school system had the same curriculum,” he said. TEACHERS need to be paid according to their qualification and not by position to improve quality of education, Prime Minister James Marape says. Marape said he had talked about this when he was the Education Minister and he wanted this to be the practice. “We will re-look at entire teachers’ salary for the country,” he said. “Teachers must be paid not on their position but on qualification. “I have talked about this when I was the education minister. “If you have master’s degree and teaching at a primary school, you must be paid based on your qualification. PNG EDUCATION secretary Dr Uke Kombra has urged teachers who graduated from the University of Goroka (UOG) on Friday to be loyal in their profession. “Be loyal to your family and your career as a teacher,” he said. “As teachers, be loyal to your students and your superiors. “Loyalty is important in any career. “Don’t go looking for jobs. “You do the job and jobs will come looking for you.” BALOB Teachers College and several other teachers colleges are yet to have some of their students from 2019 and up to last year registered because they have not met the minimum requirements, an official says.
Education secretary Dr Uke Kombra said many of these students either had not completed the course programme successfully or had not completed grade 12 with the minimum required grade point average (GPA) of 2.4. “Some of them don’t have the records, that’s why we terminated them,” he said. THIRTHY students graduated under the faculty of medicine and health sciences at Divine Word University’s St Benedict Campus, in Wewak earlier this month. St Benedict campus vice-president Father Lawrence Arockiaraj said the 30 pioneer students graduated with advanced diploma in general nursing. “The programme also prepared the students with the knowledge and skills to perform their nursing duties effectively in any setting,” he said. “This programme has prepared the graduates at the diploma level for professional nursing practice and ongoing employment in the national health care services and registration with the Nursing Council of Papua New Guinea.” ABOUT 200 primary school teachers in Chimbu have been urged to upgrade their qualification.
Senior inspector for primary and elementary, Agnes Gegua said this during the closing of a one week in-service conducted by PNG Education Institute under its Department of Education primary in-service (Depi) programme last Thursday at Kundiawa training centre. Gegua told the 53 primary and seven elementary teachers that in order to impart quality education in the classrooms, they must move with the changing world. Inapero Huhuva has been teaching for 14 years and is currently the Senior Subject Master of the Science Department at the Port Moresby National School of Excellence. He is about to complete a Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education through Australia Awards Short Course Awards. “PNG needs an educated population that thrives on innovation and creativity if we ever going to revolutionize this country and propel it forward,” says Inapero Huhuva. “The current education system has been designed to equip students with concepts and content without harnessing their skills and abilities to create and solve existing problems. As Legal Manager with Abt Associates, Lisa-Marie Tepu leads contracting activities for the PNG Australia Governance Facility. The initiative will design and implement most of Australia's future governance portfolio under the strategic direction of the Australian and Papua New Guinea governments. Tepu is well qualified for the role with extensive experience at Abt Associates and a Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne through an Australia Awards scholarship. “The content of each of my subjects was very relevant and took into account real world scenarios, such as COVID-19,” she shared. “All my lecturers were amazing, very knowledgeable and were from different backgrounds. They challenged some pre-conceived notions I had about the way things work in international law. PORT Moresby Technical College (Pomtech) received its five-year registration certificate from the Higher Education Research Science and Technology Department (Dherst) on Wednesday.
“The certificate signals the beginning of new hard work, commitment and dedication that would be required to push the school forward and achieve its dream of becoming a Polytechnical Institute one day,” Pomtech college principal Henry Wamaingu said. He said Pomtech had supplied quality and skilled students who were now employees in industries nationwide. |
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